Mayor Steve Adler and members of the Austin City Council will answer residents’ questions about the controversial CodeNEXT process at a pair of neighborhood meetings next week. The Rosedale Neighborhood ...
According to the Austin Monitor, the city council will consider a pair of measures today that are designed to fight the displacement of longtime residents by luxury real-estate developments. Council is ...
Earlier this week, Community Not Commodity launched electronically a petition demanding that the Austin City Council take strong action to stop the displacement of local residents before enacting CodeNEXT. Displacement ...
In less than 3 weeks on April 18, 2017, the City of Austin will release draft zoning maps changing zoning categories and land use rules on almost every parcel of ...
February 17, 2017 by Fred Lewis
“CodeNEXT” is the name given by the City of Austin to the ongoing total rewrite of the City’s land use and building rules, known as the Land Development Code. It will rezone every parcel of land in the city, including allowing uses not previously allowed in many neighborhoods. It will address what can be built, where it can be built, how much can be built, and how it can be used. Our concern, which should be yours, is that the new code not change what Mayor Adler calls the soul and spirit of Austin. ( … read more)